Thursday, November 14, 2024
Rage inside the machine: in Kevin Killian’s product reviews of books, films, and sundry items, a poetic project to “queer everything.”
Selected Amazon Reviews, by Kevin Killian,
Semi…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, October 17, 2024
Simon Critchley examines the relationship between storied mystical traditions and the transformative properties of artistic practice.
Mysticism, by Simon Critchley,
New York Review Books, …
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, September 12, 2024
Agent provocateur without a cause: Rachel Kushner’s latest novel follows an American secret agent with no loyalties and even fewer judgments.
Creation Lake, by Rachel Kushner, Scribne…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, June 13, 2024
An endearing and suitably messy biography of the
pioneering punk vocalist.
Infinite Dreams: The Life of Alan Vega, by Laura Davis-Chanin and Liz Lamere, foreword by Bruce Springsteen,
Bac…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, May 9, 2024
Earth to E.T. . . . ? Daniel Oberhaus’s book investigates the history of human efforts to communicate with alien intelligence.
Extraterrestrial Languages, Daniel Oberhaus,
MIT Press, 252…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, April 11, 2024
Memories, speak: in a novel by Monika Zgustova, the story of Véra and Vladimir Nabokov’s marriage, and the fallout of an early affair, is triangulated through a prism of perspectives.
A …
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, March 7, 2024
In Diane Seuss’s sixth collection, a cobbling together
of forms and forbears.
Modern Poetry: Poems, by Diane Seuss, Graywolf Press, 112 pages, $26
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SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, February 1, 2024
Is Anne Carson nice or happy? Right or wrong question?
Wrong Norma, by Anne Carson, New Directions, 191 pages, $17.95
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In May 2017, the New Yorker published a prose…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, January 11, 2024
Audrey Schulman’s new novel tells a profound tale of mind control, misogyny, language learning, and interspecies connections at a 1960s marine research facility.
The Dolphin House, by Aud…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, December 7, 2023
Aphorisms and aesthetics: a new translation reveals the strange stylings of writer, artist, and filmmaker Jean Cocteau.
Secrets of Beauty, by Jean Cocteau, translated by Juliet Powys,
Eris…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, November 2, 2023
In Derrida’s lectures, a generously ambiguous approach to thinking about paradox, power, and borders during a time of global emergency.
Hospitality, Volume I, by Jacques Derrida, translat…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, October 5, 2023
A River of Gentrification Runs Through It: Jonathan Lethem’s new fiction chronicles neighborhood tales from the ’60s to the present.
Brooklyn Crime Novel, by Jonathan Lethem, Ecco, 373 …
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, September 7, 2023
Twenty-six poems by Ben Lerner grapple with the language of poetics at the intersection of contemporary private life and political darkness.
The Lights: Poems, by Ben Lerner, Farrar, Straus…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, June 29, 2023
Wherever you go, there you are: in Deborah Levy’s new novel, a disgraced concert pianist drifting around Europe repeatedly
runs into a doppelgänger.
August Blue, by Deborah Levy, Farrar…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, May 25, 2023
Scholar Florian Fuchs’s new book argues for short-form writing’s potential to transform a reader’s “lifeworld.”
Civic Storytelling: The Rise of Short Forms and the Agency of Liter…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMFriday, December 31, 2010
Tacita Dean has been unveiled as the next artist to exhibit in the Tate Modern turbine hall. Her current show and recent films – about decay, beauty and nostalgia – mark her out as one o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PM 
